The future of assisted suicide and euthanasia /

The future of assisted suicide and euthanasia / Neil M. Gorsuch.

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Publisher's description: The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia provides the most thorough overview of the ethical and legal issues raised by assisted suicide and euthanasia--as well as the most comprehensive argument against their legalization--ever published. In clear terms accessible...

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Main Author: Gorsuch, Neil M. (Neil McGill), 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2006]
Series:New forum books.
Subjects:
Assisted suicide > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Assisted suicide > Law and legislation > United States.
Euthanasia > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Euthanasia > Law and legislation > United States.
Euthanasia > ethics > United States.
Euthanasia > legislation & jurisprudence > United States.
Suicide, Assisted > ethics > United States.
Suicide, Assisted > legislation & jurisprudence > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Glucksberg and Quill controversies : the judiciary's (non)resolution of the assisted suicide debate
  • The debate over history
  • Arguments from fairness and equal protection : if a right to refuse, then a right to assisted suicide?
  • Casey and Cruzan : do they intimate a right to assisted suicide and euthanasia?
  • Autonomy theory's implications for the debate over assisted suicide and euthanasia
  • Legalization and the law of unintended consequences : utilitarian arguments for legalization
  • Two test cases : Posner and Epstein
  • An argument against legalization
  • Toward a consistent end-of-life ethic : the "right to refuse" care for competent and incompetent patients
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix A : certain American statutory laws banning or disapproving of assisted suicide
  • Appendix B : statistical calculations.

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